“As Fielder put it, the city is trying to serve 500 homeless families. If HSH gave them each a $3,500 monthly housing voucher, the annual cost would be $21 million. That’s…about 20 percent of what the city spends on police overtime. It’s also, Fielder points out, less than the city is prepared to spend building a habitat for pandas at the zoo.”

https://48hills.org/2025/04/fielder-proposal-to-protect-unhoused-families-runs-into-opposition-from-moderates/

Fielder proposal to protect unhoused families runs into opposition from 'moderates' - 48 hills

Sauter, Sherrill try to kill a measure that would give a bit of hope to some of the city's most vulnerable residents

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@scott is amazing how much better public money could be spent if poverty wasn't seen as a moral failing them criminalized.